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I know that words are supposed to be my thing, but I will never be able to find the words to thank my mom and dad, my brother Austin, for the sacrifices they made every day so I could go from singing in coffee houses to standing up here with you all today. Because no words would ever be enough. To all the incredible parents, family members, mentors, teachers, allies, friends, and loved ones here today who have supported these students in their pursuit of educational enrichment, let me say to you now: welcome to New York, it's been waiting for you. 

我知道语言是我的强项，但我永远无法找到合适的语言来感谢我的父母和我的弟弟奥斯汀，感谢他们每天做出的牺牲，让我能够从在咖啡馆唱歌到今天站在这里与你们在一起。任何语言都不足以表达我的感激之情。对于今天在座的所有支持这些学生追求教育充实的了不起的父母、家人、导师、老师、盟友、朋友和亲人，让我现在对你们说：欢迎来到纽约，它一直在等待你们。

I'd like to thank NYU for making me, technically, on paper at least, a doctor. Not the type of doctor you would want around in case of an emergency, unless your specific emergency was that you desperately needed to hear a song with a catchy hook and an intensely cathartic bridge section, or if your emergency was that you needed a person who can name over 50 breeds of cats in one minute. I never got to have a normal college experience, per se. I went to public high school until 10th grade and then finished my education doing home school work on the floors of airport terminals. 

我要感谢纽约大学让我从理论上至少在纸面上成为一名博士。但不是那种你在紧急情况下想要联系的那种，除非你的特殊紧急情况是你迫切需要听一首有朗朗上口的副歌和一段强烈宣泄的桥段的歌曲，或者你的紧急情况是你需要一个能在一分钟内说出50多种猫的名字的人。我从来没有过正常的大学经历。我在公立高中读到10年级，然后通过在机场航站楼的地板上做家庭作业完成了学业。

Then I went out on the road for radio tours, which sounds incredibly glamorous, but in reality, it consisted of a rental car, motels, and my mom and I pretending to have loud mother-daughter fights with each other during boarding so no one would want the empty seat between us on Southwest. As a kid, I always thought I would go away to college, imagining the posters I would hang on the wall of my freshman dorm. 

我开始去巡演，这听起来非常吸引人，但实际上，它就是一些租车、汽车旅馆，以及我和妈妈在登机时假装吵架，这样就没有人愿意坐在我们旁边的空座位上。小时候，我总是想着我会去上大学，想象着我会把海报挂在我大一宿舍的墙上。

I even set the ending of my music video from my song "Love Story" at my fantasy, imaginary college, where I meet a male model reading a book on the grass and with one single glance, we realized we had been in love in our past lives. Which is exactly what you guys all experienced at some point in the last four years, right?

我甚至把我的歌曲“love story”的音乐视频的结尾设定在我幻想的、想象中的大学，在那里我遇到了一个坐在草地上读书的帅哥，看了他一眼就想起来我们相爱的前世。这正是你们在过去四年中的某个时刻所经历的，对吧？

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